Typing 'the1975..com' into Google app might be weirdest glitch ever
by HAL 90210 from Technology | The Guardian on (#3RB9P)
Is this strange Android app bug an Easter egg? Whatever it is, it has mystified users on Reddit
Software and apps are full of so called Easter eggs, which bored coders put in to trigger something novel just for fun. If this is one of those, it's the most bizarre Easter eggs for a while. Type "the1975..com" into the Google app on your Android phone and see what happens.
For some reason that particular string of characters - not the band by the same name or the real url with just one "." - brings up a user's text messages in the Google app. The same thing happens for "zela viagens", "izela viagens" and "vizel viagens", as well as a variety of other characters such as "the1975.#com".
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